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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Name: "Sword of Allah"? Let Him In! - Douglas Murray

by Douglas Murray

Instead of looking warm and big-hearted, you begin to look as if
you were just unforgivably lax with the security of your own citizens.

Even the craziest immigration
systems dreamed up by European officials have not yet come up with
something like America's "diversity visa" lottery, by which someone
named "Sword of Allah" is promptly let into the country -- only then to
mow people down in a New York bicycle lane.

Nearly 56,000 foreign nationals have disappeared from the radar
of the British authorities after being told that they were required to
leave the country.

Instead of looking warm and big-hearted, you begin to look as if
you were just unforgivably lax with the security of your own citizens.
So an entire political class has been.

It is only eight weeks since an 18-year old Iraqi-born man walked
onto the London Underground and left a bomb on the District line.
Fortunately for the rush-hour commuters and school children on that
train, the detonating device went off without managing to set off the
bomb itself. Had the device worked, the many passengers who suffered
life-changing burns would instead have been among many other people
taken away in body bags. Ahmed Hassan
came to the UK illegally in 2015 and was subsequently provided with
foster care by the British government. He has now been charged, and is
awaiting trial, for causing an explosion and attempted murder.

London
police outside Parsons Green Underground station, following the
terrorist bombing there on September 15, 2017. (Image source:
Edwardx/Wikimedia Commons)

As stories like that of Mr. Hassan emerge, there are varying
reactions. Some people say that this act is not indicative of anything,
and that we must accept that such things happen -- like the weather.
Others suggest that anyone might leave a bomb on the District line in
the morning, and that there is no more reason to alter your border
policy because of it than there is to alter your meteorological policy
because of it.

As poll after poll shows, however, the majority of the public in
Britain -- as in every other European country -- think something else.
They think that a country that has lost a grip on its immigration policy
is very likely to lose control of its security policy, and that one may
indeed follow the other.

So the British public were not at all reassured by the news this
month that the country's Home Office has lost track of tens of thousands
of foreign nationals who were due to be removed from the country. Nor
that there is no evidence of any effort to find the people in question.

Figures revealed in two new reviews by the Chief Inspector of Borders
and Immigration showed that nearly 56,000 foreign nationals have
disappeared from the radar of the British authorities after being told
that they were required to leave the country. This figure includes over
700 foreign national offenders (FNOs) who went missing after being
released into the community from prison. It also revealed that around
80,000 foreign nationals are required to check in on a regular basis at
police stations and immigration centres while authorities prepare for
them to leave the country. By the end of 2016, just under 56,000 of them
had failed to keep appointments and had become persons "whose
whereabouts are unknown and all mandatory procedures to re-establish
contact with the migrant have failed."

Nevertheless, with a straight face, Brandon Lewis, the immigration minister for the present Conservative government, declared
that "People who have no right to live in this country should be in no
doubt of our determination to remove them." Yet he still admitted that
"Elements of these reports make for difficult reading."

For the British public, they will also make difficult living. We all
have to live with the consequences of an immigration system which has
been more than usually unfit for purpose since the Labour government of
1997. It is just the British version of a story that is playing all
across Western Europe. Across the Western half of the continent, all
governments have allowed immigration policy to slide for more than a
generation. Having become lax about policing the borders, they have
become lax about returning people who have no right to be inside those
borders. And having become lax about returning people who should not be
in the country, they end up putting at peril the citizens of the
country.

When the post-1997 Labour government first decided that the return of
people in the UK illegally was not an important priority, they did so
in part because the then-immigration minister decided that it was too
traumatic for everyone involved: traumatic for the illegal migrant and
for the UK border officials who had to remove them. In just such a way,
by thousands of small cuts, does a nation's territorial integrity and
future security become shattered.

Although a person's name may be nothing more than an inauspicious
start -- its owner, after all, did not choose it -- even the craziest
immigration systems dreamed up by European officials have not yet come
up with something like America's "diversity visa" lottery, by which
someone pronounces themselves to be called "Sword of Allah" [terrorist
Sayfullo Saipov] and is promptly let into the country -- only then to
mow people down in a New York bicycle lane. But we are all suffering
from variants of the same mania.

Nevertheless, even the most seriously ingrained manias can be snapped
out of. In Britain, as in the rest of Western Europe and North America,
there is only thought to be a political price to pay for being tough on
immigration. For the time being, only people who believe in enforcing
the law look heartless. Only those who insist on following -- or even
tightening -- due process look like the ones who have done a wicked
thing.

But as the events on the Underground in London in September presage,
all of this can change in a few instants. A few more bombs left by a few
more illegal immigrants, or a few more trucks driven along a few more
bicycle lanes -- let alone by illegal immigrants who have overstayed and
not been deported -- and the whole thing can change. At that point,
instead of looking warm and big-hearted, you begin to look as if you
were just unforgivably lax with the security of your own citizens. So an
entire political class has been. But it may take a lot of bloodshed yet
for them to learn that there are not just political benefits to be
accrued from such laxness, but one day a political price to pay.

Douglas Murray, British author, commentator and public
affairs analyst, is based in London, England. His latest book, an
international best-seller, is "The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration,
Identity, Islam."Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11338/sword-of-islam-sayfullo Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.